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Wanneer: 23/09/2019 - 19:30

Vandaag werd in het Duitse Brunsbüttel een fabriek van Yara geblokkeerd. Vanuit het actiekamp hadden de activisten zich in twee vingers opgesplitst. Ondanks de aanwezigheid van veel politie was het gelukt bij twee ingangen te komen. Op het moment gaat de actie nog door.

Hieronder staat de tijdlijn van vandaag van de Free the Soil website. Daar weer onder het Engelstalige persbericht dat over de actie is uitgestuurd. Een uitgebreider verslag volgt nog.

Ticker of the action
(volg de updates op de website van Free the Soil

18.55 20 people now blocking the third entrance
18.45 the permission for the Southern checkpoint has been extended until 3pm tomorrow
18.05 according to a journalist, the police is not planning to evict the people
18.00 it has started to rain
16.25 Both blockades are still standing. Damages on train tracks, that were attributed to Free the Soil activists earlier, now turned out to be old cases and the detained person has been released.
11.45 toilets at the camp are getting emptied!!
11.44 all the people who were detained have now been released. A camp shuttle is getting ready to pick them up
11.40 Turquoise finger blockading the west entrance, purple finger blockading the east entrance

info from the legal team: 16 had been detained during the nights action. 11 in total have been released and are back. 5 are still in detention

11.10 4 people who were detained are released and back at camp
11.05 The fingers are meeting each other
10.40 Purple finger turning north
10.40 Purple finger are singing: "Strong in solidarity we stand"in kanon
10.38 turquoise finger turning west on Holstendamm
10.06 turquoise finger is heading north on road 431
10.06 purple finger are heading west
Count: 200 people in the purple finger
10.00 turquoise and purple finger are leaving the camp
9.30 fingers getting ready to leave
5.01: 8 people were taken into custody by the police.
4.30: 4 people were taken into custody by the police.
1.35: A smaller group was taken into custody by the police

Press release Free the Soil:

Since 11.40 am of September 23, 2019, 500 activists in Brunsbüttel, Northern Germany, have blocked the production site of YARA, the world's largest producer of nitrogen fertilizers. In groups of several hundred people, they occupy the entrance gates. The activists from the climate justice movement thus draw attention to the harmful consequences on the climate by the production of synthetic fertilizers.

The international network Free the Soil has called for the blockade. The network wants to show the role of the agricultural industry in the worsening climate crisis. "For too long the agricultural industry has gone under the radar", says Laila Larsen from climate and agricultural justice camp near the blockade. About 50% of greenhouse gas emissions are related to food production. The production of nitrogen fertilizers is highly energy-intensive and is based on the use of fossil natural gas, which is largely produced by fracking. Linda Kauert, who is part of the Free the Soil network adds: “Food production must finally end up in the hands of the people who consume it. Agricultural corporations such as YARA make small farmers dependent on their products and damage the climate”. The activists announce that they want to maintain the blockade indefinitely.